Tanzania: Sugar production, deficit ends next year

DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA will completely end sugar deficit and begin exporting the surplus from next year, President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan declared on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Head of State affirmed that the country will from next year put to an end the challenge of shortage of power. "I think next year we will completely end sugar deficit in the country and we will start exporting the product," Dr Samia stated in Dar es Salaam during the 17th President's Manufacturer of the Year Award (PMAYA). PMAYA, organised by the Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI), is usually graced by the President in her capacity as CTI Patron. About cooking oil, she said in the past two years the country experienced a serious shortage, but this year enough edible seeds have been produced and processed which puts the country in better chances to address the deficit next year. She further said that from next year two turbines at the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project (JNHP) will be switched on, ...